Now, we don’t need to pass jobs legislation to have the save the job of any congressperson. We need to pass jobs legislation to help the over 20 million Americans who are unemployed or underemployed find good jobs.

But sometimes, the prospect of a congressperson losing his or her job is what’s needed to get risk-averse politics to take action.

No one bill is going to resolve the jobs crisis. But one of the boldest pieces of legislation currently on the table in the House is the Local Jobs For America Act, which my colleague Mitchell Hirsch blogged about recently.

The bill would provide $100 billion to state and local governments, to help them create or save one million jobs in education, public safety, childcare, healthcare and transportation.

A mass refusal by the public to watch Donald Trump on TV will deprive him of big ratings, which he routinely uses to create a false impression of widespread popularity.

About Bill Scher

Bill Scher is the Online Campaign Manager at Campaign for America's Future, and the executive editor of LiberalOasis.com. He is the author of Wait! Don't Move To Canada!: A Stay-and-Fight Strategy to Win Back America, a regular contributor to Bloggingheads.tv and host of the LiberalOasis Radio Show weekly podcast. He has opinion articles that have been published by the New York Times, Minneapolis Star Tribune and Omaha World-Herald, and has made appearances on CNN, MSNBC and NPR among other TV and radio outlets.